Evergreen wins US Logistics award

TAIWAN: Taiwanese carrier Evergreen Marine Corporation won the 2015 LOG-NET E-Commerce Excellence Award on March 3 at the Trans-Pacific Maritime conference in California. The award, presented by the integrator of ocean carriers LOG-NET and Journal of Commerce, is given in recognition of Evergreen's outstanding achievement in processing customer electronic information. "Evergreen has done an excellent job in the face of great competition," said John Motley, LOG-NET's CEO and founder. Roy Amalfitano, president of Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) Corporation, who accepted the award on behalf of Evergreen, said, "We at Evergreen place great emphasis on what our customers need to remain competitive."

The E-Commerce Excellence Award is recognised as the top honour in electronic commerce in the international trade and transportation industry. As such, electronic commerce has been a company and customer priority since it even became a factor in shipping, Amalfitano added. Evergreen was named LOG-NET's first-ever recipient of this award in 2003 as well as in 2004, and stayed among the top five in the following years. The carrier also announced on the same day that it would be launching its new Taiwan-Shekou-Malacca Strait (TSS) service later in March, and will also introduce a dedicated Taiwan-Hong Kong (THK) service.

Three 1,600 TEU box ships will be deployed on the TSS service, which connects Taiwan, southern China, Singapore, and Malaysia with the inaugural sailing from Kaohsiung on March 19. The port rotation will be: Hong Kong, Shekou, Port Klang, Penang, Port Klang, Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas and Kaohsiung. The new THK weekly service, employing a 1,200 TEU vessel, will have a port rotation of Taichung, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, and Taichung, with its maiden voyage from Hong Kong on March 25.